New Delhi: As the excitement round Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar changing into the joint Opposition candidate for the Prime Minister’s put up grows, his get together, the Janata Dal (United), stated on Friday that if all different events need it, this could possibly be an choice. Mr Sharad Yadav, a pacesetter of the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the JD(U)’s new political ally in Bihar, additionally stated Mr Kumar could possibly be the prime ministerial candidate for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. Mr Nitish Kumar’s choice to interrupt ties with the BJP, his ally since 1996 aside from a interval between 2013-17, has more and more fuelled hypothesis about his doable prime ministerial bid.
JD(U) president Lalan Singh stated that Mr Kumar’s most important focus was on uniting the Opposition events to tackle the BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and that he’ll go to the nationwide capital to fulfill leaders from varied events after the vote of confidence within the Bihar Meeting subsequent week. The JD(U) president and Lok Sabha MP stated many Opposition leaders, together with Sharad Pawar and Arvind Kejriwal, had known as up Mr Kumar to congratulate him after he minimize off ties with the BJP and allied with its rivals to kind a brand new authorities in Bihar. He stated all Opposition events ought to sit collectively to resolve on the management to tackle the BJP led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi within the subsequent Lok Sabha polls.
A few of the Opposition events nonetheless view the JD(U) chief with suspicion citing his quite a few “U-turns”. Some Opposition leaders additionally identified that Mr Kumar was one amongst a number of leaders with prime ministerial ambitions, together with West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Telangana CM Ok. Chandrashekar Rao, apart from Congress chief Rahul Gandhi. Mr Nitish Kumar has, nevertheless, refused to answer questions on him being the Opposition’s prime ministerial face within the Lok Sabha elections.
